MANILA, Philippines - When they ran out of floor space in the bedroom, she said, “we would place it in the bathtub.” Remember that statement made by government witness Gertrudes Luy? She recalled to the Senate Blue Ribbon committee in a recent hearing how employees of JLN Corp., the firm owned by alleged pork barrel queen Janet Lim-Napoles, how they would stash huge sums of money in their boss’s residence at a posh Bonifacio Global City residential tower.
The elder Luy, mother of chief whistleblower Benhur Luy, earlier also gave affidavits to the National Bureau of Investigation team looking into the P10-billion pork barrel scam.
While an earlier video posted by Napoles' daughter Jeane showing off her luxurious surroundings and possessions had already enraged social media weeks before her mother surrendered and was charged, the statement given at the Senate hearing about "bathtubs filled with cash" alone was enough to make people’s imagination run wild.
Apparently, even veterans in the news business were so obsessed with the imagery that even two international websites uploaded a photo of a woman bathing in money. The woman was identified as the controversial young socialite Jeane Lim-Napoles.
U.S.-based online news aggregator Huffington Post, and Australia-based
news website news.com.au ran the story about the young Napoles, but the girl in the photo was not Jeane at all.
The whereabouts of the young woman remain unclear, even though a luxury apartment in LA in her name was placed on the market over a week ago. Last week, the Bureau of Internal Revenue weighed in and filed a case accusing her of evading taxes.
source: interaksyon.com
